Tom Alexander (businessman)

Thomas Simon Alexander (born March 1959)[1] is a British businessman and former chief executive of Orange and T-Mobile.

[2] Alexander attended Millfield, the independent school, as a day scholar from 1971-75.

Alexander set up and founded Virgin Mobile, which was launched in November 1999 with his colleague from BT Cellnet, Jo Steel.

He left Virgin Mobile in 2006.

[2] In 2007 Alexander became CEO of Orange UK and in September 2009 he was informed by his parent company of a plan (in which he was not initially involved) to merge Orange UK and T-Mobile UK to form EE Limited.